After Again:
Wise Up – Aimee Mann
Landed – Ben Folds
Sundress – Ben Kweller
No Room To Bleed – Ben Lee
Miss Misery – Elliott Smith
Smoke – Ben Folds Five
Times Like These – Foo Fighters
Fade Into You – Mazzy Star
Let It Fall Apart – Helio Sequence
The Funeral – Band of Horses
follow through – Hotel Lights
Girl In The War – Josh Ritter
Paper Boats – Nada Surf
My Winding Wheel – Ryan Adams
Bruised – The Bens
I Will Remain – Old 97′s
Chicago Promenade – Jason Isbell
The El – Rhett Miller
On My Own – Stellastarr*
Turn Of The Century – Pete Yorn

I have mastered short wave radio, know the greetings & salutations
Know the frustration of announcing you’re on the radio before speaking
Like modern communication should have made us better at saying
What fits & lives between the seams of put together things
Every time I take the backroads I think of a new handle
To fool those who remember the last time they heard my monotone
While they were enclosed in the safe tin & steel of interiors

Cradling the comfort of static like an old time gramophone
Everything sounds better on vinyl LP’s, baby
Old things are more worn in, burnished leather & the smell of Jack Daniels
The thrill is long & I’ve got so much time out here
Recalling the conversations about low-grade sorrow & surrounding afflictions
Sick of this silence that makes me forget the back alley alcoves & smell
Of your perfume that I would wash out of my sheets weeks later

There’s nothing as disheartening as the click finger communication of Morse
Waiting for the next long & short tone to come over the copper wire
The harrowing shudders of divorce hanging on me like poor reasons
I remember the times we recycled over & over again to be back at the same place
And now I have to remember not to call you & maintain this closed-eye, closed-mouth
Radio silence where the violent need is to tell you…she looks just like you
And looks are quiet when there’s nothing left I should say
© Adam Bresson

On December 19, 2007, I read at Velvet Guerilla Cabaret, Michael Slobotzky’s reading at Unurban Coffeehouse in Santa Monica, CA. I read four pieces: “You are Mary Steenburgen…” “You do not have to worry, I am maintaining radio silence…” “138 day countdown until St. Patty’s day…” “In this good dream we were slow fucking on the beach” Please visit www.adambresson.org for more poetry and writing.

Summertime 2008:
Last Nite – The Strokes
Loser – Beck
Future Foe Scenarios – Silversun Pickups
New Slang – The Shins
Summer – Buffalo Tom
Runnin’ Down A Dream – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
Weightless – Nada Surf
Street Fighting Man – The Rolling Stones
Not So Kool-Aid – Dane Cook
Long Road To Ruin – Foo Fighters
The Funeral – Band of Horses
Mexican Wine – Fountains Of Wayne
Mr. Jones – Counting Crows
The Underdog – Spoon
Stronger – Kanye West
Screenwriter’s Blues – Soul Coughing
Supernova – Liz Phair
Blueside – Rooney
Fade Into You – Mazzy Star